Support for electrically heated sadirons



March 25, 1941. H, sc 2,236,073,

SUPPORT FOR ELECTRICALLY HEATED SADIRONS Fild March a, 1,939

Amwroe Patented Mar. 25, 1941 UNITED stares 2,236,073 I 1 SlJll-ORT non ELECTRICALLY HEATED SADIRON S Helene A. Schack, St. Paul, Minn.

Application March 8, 1939, Serial No. 260,551

screams. (01. 248- 1172) My invention relates to a new appliancethat affords a safe, convenient and inexpensive support for an electrically heated sadiron and its cooperating electric conductor cord.

My invention furthermore relates to an electric sadiron support whose supporting platform is provided with cross ventilating means permitting .airto be drawn up through the platform, and,

It is a further object of my invention to provide a mounting that rigidly holds the sadiron supporting appliances upon an edge of an ironing board so thatthe sadiron supporting tray is on a plane above the plane of the ironing board and likewise to the rear of the same, and,

i It isa further object of my invention to provide a complete peripheral raised edge as a guard to prevent the sadiron being moved from the sup-- porting means without lifting, and,

The further objects of my invention that are new and novel willbe more fully presented in the following specification, to this end, in the drawing, a

Figure 1 is a perspective view of my invention showing the ventilated base of the supported sadiron tray and its cooperating cord sustaining member, the upper part of which is broken away.

Figure 2 is a top view of my invention showing the transverse and longitudinal ventilating means attained by the said sadiron supporting lips extending up from the base of the tray.

Figure 3 is an end view of my invention showing the clamping means, the cord holder with its fastening means and the cord suspending loop atop the cord holder.

Figure 4 is a cross section of the tray, taken on the line l l of Figure 2, through the sadiron tray, showing the sadiron supporting lips, the ventilating slots, and the peripheral raised edge guard.

Figure 5 is a front view of my invention clamped to an ironing board with the upper part of the cord holder broken away.

Figure 6 is a perspective view from the rear of the cord holder sustaining mounting, showing in detail its supporting and locking means as applied to the general construction of my invention.

Figure 7 is an enlarged perspective view of a corner of the electric sadiron supporting tray showing the supporting lips for the sadiron, provided with projected supporting digits for the sustaining of the sadiron and thus permitting cross ventilation to the fullest possible means.

In referring to the drawing, A represents a ventilated electric sadiron supporting tray of which the ventilating slots B act as air passages.

11' Adjacent to the slots B are upturned supporting lips C acting asthe electric sadiron supports and likewise a cross reinforcement for the base of the tray. These supporting lips C are an integral part of the tray base D, being formed by the upbending of the metal from the slot B and thereby affording not alone the raised sadiron support above the face of said tray but a structural reinforcement for the same.

The ventilated sadiron tray A is mounted at 19 its ends upon brackets E which are provided with supporting thumbs E" so as to hold the ventilated electric sadiron tray in an elevated plane parallel to the top surface of the ironing board F to which the entire unit is made fast for op- 1 oration.

The supporting brackets E are further provided with jaws E12 and supporting bracket struts E3. The bracket jaws E2 are provided at their holding ends with an enlarged knob end E4 through which is threaded a thumb screw 2, sustaining contact wobble heads 2a upon their upper termination as locking elements for the said clamp brackets E.

The supporting brackets E are further provided at their rearward termination 3 with a flat downward projecting stop lip 4 and a tray paralleling cord rod sustaining member 5 the latter of which carries the cord rod socket member 6 held pivotally in rotatable position by a pivotal holding means "I onto sustaining member 5.

The cord socket member 6 which is originally. a cross shape is provided with a squared socket 8 being formed by bending the lip Go into a squared socket as shown, while the lip 61) to opposite side of said socket member is provided with inwardly bent travel locking means 9 and I0 respectively. The upper locking wing 9 when placed to the rear of the right hand bracket, for a right handed person will arrest a greater angled turn than the perpendicularizing of the cord rod socket 8 while the lower locking wing l0 when rotated about the pivotal point I abuts onto the stop lip 4 and arrest any greater angled turn than the horizontalling of the cord rod socket 8.

The squared socket 8 is the receiving member of the squared terminating end ll of the cord suspender l2 which is provided at its head with a spiralle'd loop [3 slidably sustaining the electric cord well above the hand line of the sadiron and handle thereof resting upon the ventilated sadiron tray A. The entire periphery of the Ventilated sadiron tray A is further provided with an upward extending guard 14 to arrest any removal of the electric sadiron from the tray other than by lifting the same from within the lipped guard.

The upper faces of the sadiron supporting lips C extending upwards from the tray face D and providing ventilating means 13' through the base of the tray, are provided with depressions 20 in the supporting lip faces. These depressions 2!] allow little supporting surfaces 2| of the supporting lips C to act as the actual rest for the electric sadiron.

In operation, assuming that the party utilizing this invention to be a right handed person, the sadiron tray unit with brackets would be first made fast upon the ironing boards end edge, the jaws of the clamps straddling the said board and it accompanying padding and cover. clamping means of the brackets afford rigid suspension by means of thumb screws fastenings, so that the tray will be sustained in an elevated line parallel to the top surface of the ironing board and to the rear of the same.

The cord sustaining mounting would then be pivotally attached to the rear right hand corner of the tray support as is best shown in Figure 6 and made pivotally fast thereto by the pivotal support I sustained in proper position in lip 5. As before stated, the squared end ll of the cord sustaining rod l2 would then be inserted into squared socket 8 and the electric cord would be then threaded through the loop I 3 to suspend the same at a predetermined height. The electrically heated sadiron would then be placed within the tray A to rest upon the upturned projecting digits 2| caused by the indenting of the upper face of the supporting lip C. The longitudinal slots B through the base of the tray will allow a free upfiowing current of air which in its expanding state would likewise flow through depression 20 thus ventilating nearly the entire base of the sadiron, and the tray absorbing only such heat as would be transmitted through the digits 2| upon which the electrically heated sadiron rests.

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Should the party using this appliance be left handed the cord sustaining mounting would be reversed and used upon the rear of the left hand corner of the tray thus permitting the locking wing 9 to operate in conjunction with the left hand locking lip 4 and the locking lip l0 to operate in conjunction with the underside of the tray base.

I claim:

1. An iron holder of the class described comprising a base plate formed with an upwardly projecting flange extending around its periphery, and with a series of spaced apart slots extending across said base plate, said slots being formed with upwardly extended lips and said lips being formed with spaced edge indentures, whereby said lips form supports for an iron, said slots and the indentures in said lips forming air passages to bring about a transverse and longitudinal ventilating of the bottom of a supported iron.

2. An iron holder of the class described comprising a base plate, a peripheral flange projecting upwardly from said plate, said plate being formed with transverse slots terminating short of said flange, upwardly projecting lips formed by the bending of the base plate upwardly along side said slots, said lips being formed With spaced apart edge indentures, and brackets extending underneath the ends of said plate and formed at one end with jaws for securing a support, and for holding said base plate in a horizontal plane spaced above such support.

3. An iron holder of the class described comprising a base plate, a peripheral flange projecting upwardly from said plate, a series of lips projecting upwardly from the sides of transverse slots cut in said base plate, supporting brackets for said base plate, said brackets extending along and underneath the ends of said base plate, and spaced apart jaws carried by one end of each bracket to hold said base plate above the said aws.

' HELENE A. SCHACK. 

